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Biography
Dr. Sergey Leontyev is a highly experienced Consultant Cardiac Surgeon with more than 25 years of expertise in advanced cardiac surgery. He specializes in minimally invasive cardiac procedures, valve surgery, aortic surgery, coronary artery bypass surgery, and transcatheter heart interventions.
Dr. Leontyev currently serves as Medical Director of Helios Private Clinic Leipzig, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Leipzig, and Managing Senior Physician at Leipzig Heart Center, Germany. Throughout his distinguished career, he has performed more than 7,500 cardiac operations, including over 500 minimally invasive procedures and more than 1,000 transcatheter interventions.
His expertise includes minimally invasive mitral, tricuspid, and aortic valve surgery performed through small incisions using advanced video-assisted techniques. He also has extensive experience in complex aortic procedures, including aortic root replacement and total aortic arch reconstruction, as well as off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).
In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Leontyev is actively involved in research and medical education and has authored or co-authored 99 scientific publications in the field of cardiac surgery.
Speciality
Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Areas of Expertise
- Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery
- Minimally invasive tricuspid valve surgery
- Minimally invasive aortic valve surgery
- Video-assisted cardiac surgery
- Mitral valve repair and reconstruction
- Tricuspid valve repair and reconstruction
- Aortic valve replacement
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)
- Transcatheter mitral valve repair
- Structural heart disease interventions
- Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)
- Off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery
- Aortic root replacement surgery
- Total aortic arch replacement
- Complex aortic surgeryList Item
- High-risk cardiac surgery
- Heart valve disease management
- Second opinion and surgical treatment planning
Education
Master of Health Business Administration (MHBA)
University of Nuremberg, Germany (2019)
PhD (Habilitation) in Cardiac Surgery
University of Leipzig, Germany (2013)
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
First Saint Petersburg State Medical University named after Pavlov, Russia (1997)
Professional Memberships
- Member, German Society of Thoracic, Heart and Vascular Surgery
- Member, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)
- Member, Russian Society of Heart and Vascular Surgery
- Member, Heart Valve Society